Rob Ellin
Analyst · JMP. Please go ahead
Thank you, Whitney. Thanks everyone for joining us. LiveXLive has made tremendous progress in our second fiscal quarter. Just many of you new to story, let me reiterate a few of the key principles of our business. First our mission statement, we founded LiveXLive to deliver the first ever social live music platform around the globe, providing the consumer with the most authentic and immersive music experience in the last 25 years. Our mission is simple, to bring new experience in live music and entertainment to music fans, wherever music is watched and listened to around the world. At the highest level, our goal is to bring fans, bands and brands together, while enhancing value and introducing new revenues to the entire music industry. We accomplish this by leveraging technology to capitalize on the mega trends of our industry including live streaming, over-the-top delivery, mobile and highly, shareable content. LiveXLive allows music fans to seamlessly move through our apps to watch their favorite artist perform, their favorite festivals, concerts, award shows, fans to move seamlessly through our site and our apps to approach to watch the greatest music festivals. This includes original programming, including interviews, backstage, behind the scenes, red carpet in a full slate of original programming. We deliver all this while using technology to offer the most immersive experience with consumers that while watching you can chat and message. And in the very near future, you will be able to date, buy tickets and acquire merchandise. We get you as close to live experience as possible. You may not be standing in the venue, but we will give an opportunity to certainly have the best seat in the house. As useful way to frame our business is that we’re utilizing the ESPN playbook applying to the music industry, they create the next generation MTV and a large profitable music network using modern mobile first technology that the course wasn’t available then, we are fortunate to have world-class executives to join our team, including Steven Bornstein and Roger Werner, who guided and built the originally ESPN. We have a simple but powerful business model. First, we’ve aggregated audio and video streaming rights in many of the biggest music festivals, biggest music events in the world. Secondly, we have a neutral and independent position with the industry that is allowed LiveXLive the opportunity to partner with all labels, promoters, publishers, agents, managers, and most importantly, the biggest artists in the world. Third, we have a paid subscriber base that is rapidly approaching 600,000. Slacker Radio is one of our key assets and have done a tremendous job changing the trajectory of that business since we acquired in December, enhancing the experience for our subscribers with over 370 curated channels and now adding for the first time video to the audio experience. And fourth, we’re developing a slate of original programs that further differentiates LiveXLive from any other music network. For example, we’re about to officially roll out LiveZone or SportsCenter for music festivals at Rolling Loud in Los Angeles, one of the top hip-hop festivals, advance your initiatives that become the most authentic platform for music again in 25 years. Now turning to the progress for the quarter, we delivered record financial performance, posted over $8 million in revenues, up 5% for the quarter. We added approximately 60,000 subscribers and ended the quarter with 549,000 paying subscribers, representing a 12% sequential growth. Today, six weeks later, we’re about 585,000 subscribers. We live streamed the record eight festivals in the second quarter, up from five last quarter. We have live streamed 16 of the biggest festivals in the world this year to-date. These included world-class immense like Jazz Montreux, Paleo Festivals in Switzerland, the Global Dance Festival, HARD Summer Festival, Rolling Loud in California, Sziget in Budapest, Bumbershoot, Seattle, and Life is Beautiful in Las Vegas. These streams included some of the biggest artists across all genres of music including Shawn Mendes, Travis Scott, Florence and the Machine, Arcade Fire, The Chainsmokers, Lil Wayne, Portugal. The Man, Kendrick Lamar, John Mayer, and The Killers. We’re reaching a very large and rapidly growing audience and drove more than 40 million views year-to-date. Year to date, our live streams have generated over 400 hours of live content and featured 350 of the biggest artists in the world. We developed the slate of original programming over 200 plus pieces of short form content. And we maintain a solid cash position and in Q2 with $14.1 million cash versus $15.9 million at the end of Q1. We remained focused on strengthening our balance sheet and diligently managing cash flows. We continue to strengthen our world-class management team with the best in the industry. They’re in the quarter, we added Matt Baxter is Head of Content to programming and Tad Ro as Head of Product discuss a little bit of that background shortly. We produced our first ever live event with Playboi Carti and Designer. Our festival footprint is growing and is based on key partnerships with promoters across all genres. We’ve seen, especially the strong festival growth with Insomniac and Live Nation and our partnerships with Rolling Loud Festival and AEG. Just this weekend we stream EDC Orlando filming on the EDM’s leadership with many of the biggest EDM fest around the globe and making us the thought leader in dance music. We’ve publicly announced will stream 27 plus festivals and music events this year. So growth drivers, second half of 2019 really becomes exciting. As I mentioned earlier, we’re also diversifying into award shows, concerts, venues, and original programming. Original content will also be the key to our story. During the quarter, we began to launch our slate of original programs including pilots, personalities, and you do take some of the music industry and lifestyle. We have thrilled to be added Matt Baxter, Head of Content to our programming. Matt comes with a strong background of heading content at Spotify, Buzzfeed and then LiveNation TV. As we entered the back half of fiscal 2019, we’re in preparation for launch. One of the most critical components of our business LiveZone, which we’ll showcase new and exciting technology and brand sponsorships as early as December. LiveZone, our SportsCenter of music has been tested at several festivals over the summer. We will formally be launching LiveZone with breaking news, festival highlights on air personalities and behind the scenes and Rolling Loud at Los Angeles in December. As I mentioned, we also added Tad Ro as Head of Product bringing his unique background and experience across live music and mobile, formally heading product for Spin Media, TMZ and Verizon. We began rolling out certain features in the second quarter and we fully expect next generation of our platform to be the first ever social live music network for passionate fans. Our users will be able to simultaneously watch concerts, chat with other fans, buy merchandise, and launching curated channel on their Slacker app. We believe that combining the power of social with live streaming, the ever growing experience, it will make LiveXLive the premier destination for viewing live events. Turning to our subscriber growth, as I mentioned, we’re approaching 600,000 paid subscribers and a clear line of sight to 1 million. The combined DNA of Slacker LiveXLive around the original program live to consumer, the first opportunity to enjoy that a combination of audio and video focused specifically on original program. Key to our success has been OEM deals with automakers and telcos. We are more than 80 different automobiles and we have exclusive partner across all Tesla cars. You’ve seen the massive uptick in deliveries of Tesla vehicles and we are in every one of those cars, we should benefit from the growing ramp of Tesla deliveries across all their models. We also have bundled deals with three of the four major carriers, including Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint as one of the – as well as one of the largest carriers in Canada. We fully expect in 2019 to expand to the rest of the world. The subscriber growth shows that we’ve completely turnaround Slacker business, which was losing subscribers monthly. We have spent the last 10 months focusing on integration, cost cutting efforts, and it made substantial progress. We’ve integrated the management teams and technologies, so that we can drive impressions to Slacker and increase active daily users on LiveXLive. Key to driving subscriber growth is our focus on technology. Slacker and LiveXLive combine content programming teams who are building in network of both audio and video channels, which stretch across mobile, TV apps and in-car infotainment. Slacker furthers LiveXLive’s ability to drive innovation across technology and entertainment, while providing the company with access to a new base of consumers and music enthusiasts. Finally, we expected major partnership one of the largest music services around the world, which would expand our strategic global music partners. We rapidly created the next generation of LiveXLive web properties, mobile, OTT apps and you can now watch across iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV. I also mentioned the development of our proprietary player, the first social player, that enables the first immersive experience of watching a live event and simultaneously allows you to message, chat, buy tickets, buy merchandise and experience as close to a live event. I’m pleased to say that we’re on track and expect this new social live music network, player app to be available shortly, allowing us to capitalize and significant monetization opportunities in social and live. So in summing up, we’re pleased with our second quarter results. I want to remind everyone that we are focused on long-term. We’re making strong progress or we’re in a very early innings of this game, where up quarterly results are important, I want to reiterate the long-term goals we laid out last quarter. First, we believe within five years, in 2023, we will have at least 10 million paid subscribers on our platform. We are approaching 600,000 today and growing at double-digit rates on a quarterly basis. Secondly, we believe we can stream over 100 festivals a year. Again, we’ll stream 27 this year and growing going to next year. Third, we expect to have enough content air 24 hours a day, seven days a week, we’re making strong progress here and very excited about the launch of LiveZone. Fourth, we continue to expand our distribution footprint across all digital platforms, we’ve now signed partnerships, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Dailymotion, we’ve partnered across the globe with Tencent and expect to continue to expand our distribution globally. We’re executing well, securing valuable properties and assets, growing paid subs, watching proprietary technology, programming and rapidly growing our audience is all bodes well for the long-term monetization opportunities. We couldn’t be more excited about the future. We’re here in New York all week and look forward to seeing investors and analysts at upcoming conferences and happy to set up meetings for anyone interested. I’m going to hand it off to Mike Z. Thank you very much.